Skip to main content

Mid-Carolina AHEC Partners with South Carolina Youth Diabetes Association

Mid-Carolina AHEC has partnered with the South Carolina Youth Diabetes Association (SCYDA) to provide continuing education for school nurses. SCYDA is a 501(c)3 organization that aims to improve the lives of youth in South Carolina who are living with Type 1 diabetes by offering medically-driven camping opportunities and support to the children and families living with diabetes.  SCYDA offers camps, college support, and enhanced school support for diabetes management (including support for public school nurses). 

Traci Scott, RN, CDE, is a member of the SCYDA Board of Trustees and also a mother of a child with diabetes.  She is currently working on two programs that will be available as online courses via AHEC U (www.ahecu.org) related to caring for children with diabetes in the school setting.  The Sweet Science series will include “Providing Care to Students with Diabetes in the Public School Setting” and “Pumping Insulin.”  The goal of this series is to provide school nurses with more knowledge and understanding of treatment of Type 1 and 2 diabetes, insulin to carbohydrate ratio and management of various insulin pumps.

Ms. Scott will also present the Sweet Science series to the nurse volunteers who attend Camp Sweet Escape in June and August.  To find out more about SCYDA or Camp Sweet Escape please visit their websites:  www.scyda.com and www.campsweetescape.com.
Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

Marchek Siblings Stay Connected With Upstate AHEC Through Academic Journey

 A pair of siblings from Greer are giving back to current Upstate AHEC Health Careers students after completing the program themselves. Alex Marchek, MD is in his first year as a family medicine resident at Prisma Health Seneca. His younger sister by two years, Anna Marchek, is a second-year medical student at Edward Via College of Medicine (VCOM) Carolinas. “My mom likes to say she did good,” Anna joked. “Both of her kids are going to be doctors. She went two-for-two.” Anna (left) and Alex (right) Marchek are pictured with Nita Donald, Executive Director of Upstate AHEC. While Alex and Anna have both chosen to pursue medicine as a career, their interest in healthcare developed differently. Alex describes his discovery of health sciences as a slow realization. “It was definitely something that was on my radar really young,” said Alex. “My parents will say when I was six years old, I was talking about doing something in medicine. I had some really great science teachers in elementar...
Read more

Pee Dee AHEC Clinical Placements Help Students See Challenges – and Opportunities – of Rural Primary Care

  Third-year medical student Omar Guerrero didn’t find his passion for a career in healthcare until he began shadowing health professionals as an undergraduate student. “I just knew that I really loved science and working with my hands,” said Guerrero, who double-majored in Public Health and Cellular & Molecular Biology while at the University of South Florida. It all clicked for him once he was able to observe physicians in their encounters with patients. “I saw there was a real need for Spanish-speaking physicians,” said Guerrero. “There’s a lot of disconnect between providers and Spanish-speaking patients and I thought that was definitely an area that I could make a difference in.” Now in his third year at A.T. Still University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona, Guerrero is doing a clinical placement at Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. in Richland. Guerrero was connected with Pee Dee AHEC and their Health Professions Student (HPS) program...
Read more

Simulation Training Prepares Students for Rural Primary Care

Since its inception in 2021, South Carolina AHEC’s Simulation Education Training (SET) has remained a favorite experience amongst health professions students statewide. Pee Dee AHEC Scholars and other health professions students pose for the camera during a simulation Since its inception in 2021, South Carolina AHEC’s Simulation Education Training (SET) has remained a favorite experience amongst health professions students statewide. SET uses simulation-based technology to expose students to clinical environments and scenarios that mirror what providers experience in rural, medically-underserved communities. “A lot of simulations are emergent or hospital-based and students are usually being graded as a formal assessment when they participate,” said SC AHEC Curriculum Coordinator Dawn Leberknight, who was heavily involved in the development of the initiative. “We tried to make [SET] more informal to expose students to simulations before it’s high stakes, and then to really focus on rura...
Read more